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Life & fun · March 8, 2020

SFTPGo 0.9.6

Full-featured and highly configurable SFTP, HTTP/S, FTP/S and WebDAV server - S3, Google Cloud Storage, Azure Blob - Release 0.9.6 · drakkan/sftpgo

SFTPGo 0.9.6 launched on March 8, 2020 with 69 votes, #725 of 4,417 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 6 years on.

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In plain words

SFTPGo is a file transfer server that enables secure file sharing and management. It's designed for users and administrators who need to set up SFTP, WebDAV, and FTP services for data exchange. The software stands out by offering a web-based interface for easy server management, support for multiple authentication methods, and flexible permission controls, all delivered as open-source software available on GitHub.

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From the sources

If you are upgrading from version 0.9.5 or before, you have to manually apply, for the last time, the appropriate SQL upgrade scripts for your database before starting the 0.9.6 version, from now on the database schema will be automatically checked and updated, if required, at startup. Another way to update from version 0.9.5 is to backup your users using the dumpdata REST API, delete/rename your database and create a new one using the initprovider command, then start the service and restore your users using the loaddata REST API. For Windows users this is the recommended update path since we moved the configuration directory to C:\ProgramData\SFTPGo and so a new configuration file and an…from github.com

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